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LeineRoebana Company – SILENZIO

April 20th, 2025 Osterfestival Tirol, Innsbruck
May 1st, 2025 Corrosion, Almere
May 10th, 2025 Meervaart Theater, Amsterdam
60 minutes

The Merry-Go-Round of Today’s World

© Anna von Kooij

When we don’t know what awaits us, silence is deafening. Threatening or serene. It makes us vulnerable. 

How that silence is transformed into music – into thunderous clusters, harmonies emerging from nowhere or hushed melodies – is audible in the music of the cello and accordion. How that stillness translates into movement – ongoing, eruptive, directly emotional or visually complex – is shown by LeineRoebana’s dancers. The dancer’s body becomes one with the breath of the accordion and the soul of the cello.

SILENZIO features iconic compositions for cello and accordion by Sofia Gubaidulina, Josquin des Prez, George Crumb and Arvo Pärt and electronic soundscapes by Dyane Donck.

Choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana were awarded the 2023 ‘Prijs van Verdienste’ for their contributions to Dutch dance. The jury praised their ‘impressive performances, which are always completely individual and often show a surprising interplay between dance and the most diverse musical styles’.

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Americas DACH region

Dorrance Dance – the center will not hold

  • April 4th, 2025 The Gogue Performing Arts Center, Auburn
  • April 9th – 10th, 2025 Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill
  • April 15th, 2025 The Gaillard Center, Charleston
  • April 25th – 26th, 2025 Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston
  • May 1st, 2025 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park
  • May 9th – 10th, 2025 Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto
  • June 25th – 29th, 2025 Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Becket
  • July 11th – 12th, 2025 Colours International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
  • July 30th, 2025 Vail Dance Festival, Vail

approx. 70 minutes

American Tap Dance Reinvented

© Christopher Duggan

As a pioneer of new tap dance, Michelle Dorrance has elevated the clacking of metal taps to an entirely new level. She has always sought to engage with other styles and with contemporary dance. Now, in collaboration with New York breakdancer Ephrat Asherie, Dorrance enters into a dialogue with street dance, which, like tap dance, originally emerged as a subversive form on the streets, rooted in protest and growing through improvisation. From the reflections of these two strong women, a connection develops, and other dancers contribute their own styles.

The Center Will Not Hold is born from “a little room,” a short duet created and performed by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance in December 2022. The expanded and reimagined work now features 11 singular performers deeply rooted in one or many street, club and vernacular dances: house, breaking, hip hop, tap dance, Chicago Footwork, Detroit Jit, Litefeet, Memphis Jookin and body percussion.

Set to music by Donovan Dorrance with live percussion by world class drummer and percussionist, John Angeles, the piece is not about virtuosity or competition. It has a more serious theme, namely the current state of the world, where people wear masks to protect themselves. Dialogue gives rise to the question of whether the center, the middle of humanity, can hold – or whether everything will break apart and our world will plunge into chaos.

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Thomas Hauert – Troglodyte

March 28th – 30th, 2025 Festival dansa metropolitana, Barcelona
November 17th, 2025 TANZINOLTEN, Olten
April 3rd – 4th, 2026 Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris
April 14th, 2026 Le 140, Brussels
60 minutes

A Solo for Himself

© Olivier Miche

In his new solo, Thomas Hauert intends to deepen a creative process already present in his last two creations: making psychology, inner life, emotions and the unconscious a driving force behind movement. The starting point for Troglodyte is a kind of complex psychological enigma, expressed in the working title and subtitle of the solo Zaungast/Zaunkönig, focusing on the experience of the position of the outsider, the one who is not part of the group, the one who looks on from the outside. Zaungast is a German word that describes someone who attends an event to which they were not invited, behind the fence (literally: “guest of the fence”). Zaunkönig, literally “king of the fence”, is the German name for the wren, a small songbird. Tiny but kingly at the same time, it is imagined on the fence, ‘staying on the fence’, in the figurative sense of someone who does not take a stand, does not make up their mind and does not commit themselves accordingly.

The word troglodyte originally refers to a living creature that inhabits a cave or dwelling dug into the ground, like the little bird Zaunkönig/troglodyte. The term Troglodyte also sounds like an insult, one associated with the “Cave Man”, the boorish, uneducated, coarse man.

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Eva Reiter / Michiel Vandevelde – The Rise

March 26th, 2025 Concertgebouw, Brugge
March 29th – 30th, 2025 Kaaitheater, Brussels
May 21st – 22nd, 2025 Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
September 17th, 2025 Musiktheatertage, Vienna
90 minutes

An Experimental Opera

© Bea Borgers

In The Rise, composer Eva Reiter and choreographer Michiel Vandevelde focus on the coexistence and interchanges of various worlds as they unfold on stage successively. Thereby it is the process of translation that lead to the emergence of such new worlds. Throughout translating and re-contextualizing symbols, signs, gestures and sounds, new languages are created that eventually transform our perspective on a particular world.

The Rise is based on the poetry of Nobel prize winner Louise Glück. Specifically her publication Averno serves as the main material for the libretto.  Averno, a crater lake in Italy, was believed to be the entrance gate to the underworld. In her poetry Glück connects and interchanges the two worlds of the living and the dead, returning from one to another and evokes images of life and death, of eternity and the profane. Similarly to the surface of the lake which serves as a permeable membrane into that parallel world, we will create parallel and intermediate worlds throughout the way these poems are performed.

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Crystal Pite & Simon McBurney – Figures in Extinction for NDT

  • February 19th – 22nd, 2025 Aviva Studios, Manchester
  • February 26th – March 1st, 2025, Amare, The Hague
  • March 6th – 7th, 2025 Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht
  • March 11th – 12th, 2025 Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen
  • March 15th – 16th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • March 19th, 2025 Parktheater, Eindhoven
  • March 26th – 29th, 2025 Internationaal Theater, Amsterdam
  • April 8th – 11th, 2025 Tanssin Talo, Helsinki
  • June 18th – 20th, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • June 25th – 27th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
  • July 4th – 6th, 2025 Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin
  • August 22nd – 24th, 2025 Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh

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THE Urgent Dance Trilogy

© Rahi Rezvani

Pite and McBurney were transfixed when they saw each other’s work. But it was the ecological theme with which they found common cause. “Straight away we decided we wanted to make something centred on the climate crisis,” says Pite. “Which is not,” stresses McBurney, “separable from human crisis. We are all inescapably part of this living world.”

Sanjoy Roy (The Guardian)

We are living in an age of extinction. Can we ever hope to give a name to what we are losing? What does it mean to bear witness to a violence in which we are both perpetrator and victim? 

Across continents, choreographer Crystal Pite and Complicité Artistic Director Simon McBurney have exchanged ideas reflecting on their fears and cautious hopes for our age. Their process has drawn on a rich and surprising array of source materials: from the sound of ice caps melting to the clarion calls of climate change deniers, from scholastic lectures on the neuroscience of the brain to the cacophonous clatter of Instagram influencers.

Over a span of four years, the two world-renowned artists have created three works together for NDT 1, each developed in response to the last. Figures in Extinction [1.0] confronts us with everything that is dying on our planet, while [2.0] is a searing examination of our need for connection in a separated world. The third and final work will continue this cross-disciplinary exchange, making its world premiere in the UK in February 2025, and will offer a spark in the darkness as to where we – collectively, spiritually, and imaginatively – might go next.

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Iván Pérez – Pollock

February 17th & 23rd, 2025 Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg
June 14th & 22nd, 2025 Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg
75 minutes

A Dance Analysis of Pollock

© Theater Heidelberg

Iván Pérez will never forget how enthralled, excited and overwhelmed he was when he discovered one of Jackson Pollock’s large scale artworks at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and how he sat in front of it for hours. With the invention of Action Painting in the late 1940s, Pollock revolutionised the art world.

In 2024, the Artistic Director of Dance Theatre Heidelberg created a multidisciplinary and choreographic dance analysis of the extraordinarily gifted artist that Pollock was. Starting in the foyer, this performance allows spectators to be immersed even before going on into Marguerre Saal, where the stage has been turned into an artist’s workshop welcoming the audience. Iván Pérez creates a choreography for bodies and movement, Yamila Rios composes a hybrid score for Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, Naomi Kean designs abstract and expressive costumes coming to life in front of Sam Beklik’s immersive set.

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Christos Papadopoulos / DANCE ON ENSEMBLE – Mellowing

February 1st, 2025 Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, Heidelberg
March 17th, 2025 dFERIA, San Sebastián
March 20th – 22nd, 2025 Le CENTQUATRE, Paris
April 12th, 2025 Osterfestival Tirol, Innsbruck
July 1st – 2nd, 2025 COLOURS International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
55 minutes

Harmony, Precision, Cohesion

© Jubal Battisti

A body that is outwardly still and inwardly vibrating – what processes does the energy undergo before it breaks through? How does it change when the body matures?

In his new production Mellowing, Christos Papadopoulos embarks on his inaugural collaboration with the dancers of the Dance On Ensemble. Together they create a lively restlessness, a permanent vibration in which the spectator is inevitably involved.

Christos Papadopoulos’ works are fed by an intensely observant approach to movement and often unfold a lively and meditative power. His attention is focused on the minimal shifts of perception, the perpetual, often unnoticed and yet powerful movements that are ever-present in nature, in everyday life, within physical phenomena and political contexts.

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Omar Rajeh – Beytna

January 30th, 2025 The Arts Center, Abu Dhabi
February 20th – 21st, 2025 Manège Fonck, Liège
March 7th – 8th, 2025 Balkan Cinema, Belgrade
April 17th, 2025 Congress Innsbruck, Innsbruck
80 minutes

Dance, Eat and Unite!

© Paul Bourdrel

Beytna is a unique dance performance around the concept of sharing, where four choreographers and four musicians from Lebanon, Korea, Palestine, Belgium, and Togo come together over a banquet of food. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic experiences, they reshape a communal and traditional family reunion into an artistic meeting of dance, music, and cooking.

Witness as they talk, drink, laugh, dance, and eat, transforming this simple gathering into an intricate, captivating performance. Beytna invites you into a world of compassion, and friendship. It is a simple invitation into the home of the other. An invitation to the artist’s profession and choreographic statement, as much as it is to the forms and situations of the past.

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Emanuel Gat – Freedom Sonata

January 22nd – 23rd, 2025 Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum, Montpellier
March 7th – 8th, 2025 Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
March 17th – 21st, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
May 3rd, 2025 Festspielhaus Bregenz, Bregenz
85 minutes

Movements from Beethoven to Kanye West

© Julia Gat

Freedom Sonata is a free, contemporary take on the classic musical sonata form, evolving through three distinct choreographic movements. 

The soundtrack is a juxtaposition of two musical sources: Kanye West’s 2016 album The Life Of Pablo and L. V. Beethoven’s second movement from his last sonata #32. Played by Mitsuko Ushida and recorded in 2006. 

‘Freedom Sonata’ is yet another chapter in a continuous study into the ways in which groups/individuals behave, function and strive to find a state of balance and fulfillment. It is a manner of looking at the way society organizes itself in different contexts and exploring possible alternative models. 

‘Freedom’, the term and concept, is probably the most abused, misused and misunderstood word that exists. The truth is that nothing is easier than stripping people down from any sort of freedom, liberty or natural right. Choreography can serve as a space to examine how to solve the internal tension between the individual and the collective. When asked if my work is political, I answer that my work is not political, but the way in which I work, IS.

If I look at my work from an anthropological angle, as in a process of actively examining questions such as: models for groups organisation, governance modalities and political structures, economic models, resources management and so on, the way I would define it then would be something like: 

A commitment, through a choreographic practice, to the idea that it can be possible to have a society based on principles of self organization, voluntary association and mutual aid. 

Decentralizing the conventional hierarchies between choreographer and dancers, rethinking the distribution of power and responsibilities, defining what choreography/dance can change the established paradigms by placing individual freedom at the center of dance making, are the most valuable strategies through which dance can become a relevant force in pointing out societal anomalies and proposing alternatives.

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People Watching Collective – Play Dead

January 15th – June 1st, 2025 Chamäleon Berlin, Berlin
120 mins including one intermission

Canadian Circus Sensation

© People Watching Collective

With Play Dead, the Canadian company People Watching has created an astonishing debut work. The show will be re-staged exclusively for the Chamäleon in order to artistically expand the facets of the Chamäleon stage with its extraordinary and powerful aesthetic.

In a shifting universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, eight curious individuals dissect the beauty and absurdity of the human condition. A reverie, a purgatory, a place where anatomical logic and gravity don’t seem to apply. Through an otherworldly hybrid of acrobatics, dance and physical theatre, People Watching create contemporary circus that flows like water, sometimes gentle and reflective, sometimes relentless and impactful. Play Dead pushes physical boundaries at the intersection where circus and dance meet to celebrate life in all its eccentricity, the same way people desperately dance to the last song before the party ends.

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